III. A Letter from Dr. William Mufgrave^j 
Feilotvofthe ColL of Thy f and R. 6\ to Dr. 
Sloane, concertiirig a Periodical Palfy. 
A Periodical Palfy^ you will allow, is a very unufual 
Diftemperj 1 do not remember either from Books 
or Men, to have met with m,ore than Two Inftances of 
it. Th^ German Ephimerides (^Dec, i. Jmis 9.® 10. 
iterumque Dec, z. -^.3.) mention a young Man in the 
Dutchy of Wirtenhurg, who, for the Space of Twelve 
Years, fpoke only One Hour in the Four and Twenty,- 
and that always at the fame time, viz. between Twelve 
and One of the Day. The other Inftance has fallen 
within my own Obfervation : Being well acquainted 
with the Particulars of it, I will Report it to you : 
I was in Angujl, 1687. defired, by a poor Woman 
at Aflrep'^'ells, to look on her Daughter. They both 
came from Stow in Glocelierjhire (as they had often done) 
for Work. The Daughter was about Twenty One, of 
a Sanguin Complexion ; and, as to private Matters, well 
enough; She had been for feveral Days left Adtive than 
ufual; and after that, had (a Week before I faw her) 
loft her Speech, and the Ufe of her Legs : She reel'd 
like a Petfon Drunk, and w^s (by thofe who knew not 
her Condition) often taken to be fo ; but, I think, un- 
juftly 1 for file had neither Money nor Intereft to make 
her fo. In her Legs there was little or no Senfe of 
Feeling; her Left Leg was drawn up as in a violent 
Cramp. 
Her Ruddy Sanguin Look dirc6ted Bleeding; but 
that did not relieve her. I then gave her Spirit of Sal 
Armon. Succinaied, Sreel with Gentian, Amber, Caftor, 
and other warm Cephalics. A Biifter was laid on her 
q Neck 
